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  Leaf in Face I got hit in the face the other day. By a leaf.

  

  hit me in the face. Not a light caress, not a brief reminder of the ... , leaf! Christiane asks: What's the age-limit for prospect students at MIT? (If there is any at all.) There's no specific upper-bound, but MIT doesn

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  notes, and then if I'm still stuck, then I look at beginning of the ... ://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/the-final-stretch/'>Junior fall</a> and I sure made the most of the extra week."]5th semester ... ™: Survive and Thrive. ...and practice what I preach of course for my two

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  semester wrap-up snaps and snippets

  

  lot. i helped design an airplane in 16.82, one of the capstone options for the aero/astro degree. here is a part of that airplane (i worked on ... i contributed to in my urop at the center for civic media:  

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 29, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Mollie Burgoon A look at some of MIT's graduating students.

  

  near Columbus) Degrees: Biology (Course 7) and Brain and Cognitive ... Sciences PhD program at Harvard Favorite class you took at MIT: 7.31 (Current ... , who's going to be a Nobel laureate, taught 7.31. Favorite professor at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanksgiving and a Small Hack Quick updates from tropical Boston

  

  complaining about the outrageously cold weather, but a quick glance at status of my hometown - 5 degrees Fahrenheit with 6 inches of snow - puts the relatively tropical Boston winter at the top of this year’s list of things to

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating the Moon Landing MIT celebrates today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

  

  of the Rubins Lab at MIT. Her lab hosts a number of undergraduate UROP ... number of MIT grads in space at one time, though -- last November, 4 MIT alums were in space at the same time: They are 4 of 34 MIT alumni

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  the person you are now oversharing on the internet

  

  vulnerable and affectionate, loving and open, bold and daring.  At the end of ... very isolated at school. It was there for me and grounded me in some of ... . Growth Speaking of lingering trauma at the places that used to mean the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 3, 2019
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  of very recently, I'm an incoming Ph.D. student at MIT CSAIL where I plan to do research at the intersection of Robotics and AI. You and I ... found out that a long-lost childhood friend of mine was now a student at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  opposite side of campus. At Building W97, the Theater Arts building, I took ... whole at MIT). I focus more on the struggle of drawing, a selection of my ... , for the larger part of my life, I’ve thought of myself as very bad at

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Nadal, Federer, Helfant ‘85 Adam Helfant '85 is the new boss of professional men's tennis.

  

  one thing that strikes me is that there are a lot of MIT applicants who like tennis, both playing and watching it. Thus, I'd guess a lot of the ... Class of 1985, has been named the Executive Chairman & President of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Courses and Stuff Mason '10 made up the title, blame him.

  

  all of the courses at MIT are numbered, but where do we get off throwing ... count towards your degree in any of a number of majors. Courses designated ... and dread. 2.009 is sort of the be-all and end-all of a Course 2 degree

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / Events

  How to MC Hammer AKA embarrassing yourself for charity

  

  The Class of 2015 list of 101 things to do before you graduate has challenges of varying degrees--I can proudly say I've already seen a concert in ... got to knock off a task that is surprisingly easy to finish at MIT

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  Five months ago, I took on the position of Chancellor at MIT – a position I think of as a dream job. For the previous six years, I had been ... Chancellor at the University of Cambridge is the Duke of Edinburgh. I recently

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wolfram Alpha Tonight!

  

  want to a ridiculous degree of accuracy and depth. I can't get into too ... the live webcast of Wolfram Alpha going live. Be here tonight at 8 PM ... aren't familiar with it at all and enlighten you. Wolfram makes a

  • by Snively '11
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day with AISES + NASA

  

  former research director of the climate policy and research program at the ... conversation at MIT about the responsibilities of MIT (and science ... in conversations at the intersection of race, (health) science &

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  could be good at one of them. And I don't know if I'll ever be good at ... out of place with recent events. I've tried a lot to figure out how to ... exactly pinpoint my feelings, tired of repeating the same old "I don't feel

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  the College Night at the Bronx High School of Science. Fellow alum ... take, though there is some degree of choice for each of the required ... the normal student using 8 terms to get a degree, most take at least one

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  perfect idea. None of us really cooked for ourselves at the moment ... wrong but existing address. I’ll use fake e-mails for the sake of privacy ... -based classes (among others), whose projects span the course of several months

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Richard III: Behind-the-scenes [by Grace Kane '11, Guest Blogger] What does it take to put on Shakespeare at…

  

  at the process of bringing our collective baby, Richard III to the ... as large-scale or well-known as that of its nearby Ivy-league counterpart, there is still a contingent of incredibly talented, committed

  • by ARTalk
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / Events

  In Prison Literally

  

  degree for free. However, the purpose of the visit today wasn’t for a class ... have obtained the degree. It would have made a world of difference for ... paintings by one of the inmates. I remember staring at those pictures, the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 5, 2013